Freebies poll

[Eddie Teach]

The "high class" thing to do would be to take what you fancy regardless of price. Any other position implies that you are considering the price.

The middle class thing to do would be to take the cheap option, to show you are politely not making yourself a parasite.

The low class thing to do would be to take the expensive stuff.

All one has to do is look at the poll results to see that that is baloney.

[Maximus]

All one has to do is look at the poll results to see that that is baloney.

As is any claim based on an arbitrarily-defined "class".

[Malthus]

The "high class" thing to do would be to take what you fancy regardless of price. Any other position implies that you are considering the price.

The middle class thing to do would be to take the cheap option, to show you are politely not making yourself a parasite.

The low class thing to do would be to take the expensive stuff.

All one has to do is look at the poll results to see that that is baloney.

Look at behaviour, not self-reporting. 

[Malthus]

All one has to do is look at the poll results to see that that is baloney.

As is any claim based on an arbitrarily-defined "class".

Don't agree. Are you of the opinion that there is no such thing as a class difference?

[Maximus]

Don't agree. Are you of the opinion that there is no such thing as a class difference?

Any such distinction would have to be based on arbitrarily-defined strata which in turn would have to be based on the experiences, resources, and general world-view of the person or persons who defined it. Since these basic conditions are unlikely to be similar except within groups smaller than than the class sizes they define, it is not a very useful structure except for discussion within said group.

[Martinus]

The "high class" thing to do would be to take what you fancy regardless of price. Any other position implies that you are considering the price.

The middle class thing to do would be to take the cheap option, to show you are politely not making yourself a parasite.

The low class thing to do would be to take the expensive stuff.

So we are in 100% agreement then.

[Korea]

If the dumbass didn't want me to drink the expensive stuff, he shouldn't have offered it in first place duh.

I agree but I would drink whichever one I feel like drinking regardless of cost. 

I think if I were the one offering I would want the person to pick the more expensive one. 

[Martinus]

Well, I'm curious to see what the Brits will say. Most people who answered so far were American, and Americans have a very un-European concept of social class (for example, last time we had this discussion, most Americans argued it is almost solely based on income/wealth).

[Razgovory]

I don't drink.

[garbon]

I don't understand the question. Is the hypothetical is someone asks if you want a glass of dom perignon or a cosmo?

[Monoriu]

The objective is to make me happy, not to cause damage.  I'll choose whatever I like. 

[Barrister]

If the "someone" offering is a business like in your case, I take whatever I want.  If the "someone" is some person, or maybe a one-man business, I would possibly go with the cheaper option.

This is my answer.  If it's for business I'll take whatever I damn well want.

If I'm over at someone's house I would generally avoid the most expensive option at least, but otherwise would ask for what I would like.

[Monoriu]

I find it amusing that such a question involves social class 

[Agelastus]

...choose whichever you fancy more, irrespective of whether it is more or less expensive one

That's my actual and genuine response.

You do realise you skewed the results of this poll with your explanatory post, don't you?

[Agelastus]

I find it amusing that such a question involves social class 

Everything's about class, dear boy, you either have it or you don't...

More seriously, although definitions and terms differ between countries, I am confident that analogues to class exist everywhere, even in supposedly classless societies (see the Communist parties of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe for good examples.)

And class depends on self-image as much as anything. My current status would see me marked down in a census as being lower/working class, from what I recall. In my mind, I am middle class (with upper class leanings), nothing else.